Meeker

MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history, No. 51

White River Agency, Colorado.

June 16, 1879

Sir: I ask your authority to pay for: one pair boy’s shoes, school-boy, $3.50; one dozen awls, 40 cents; 100 fish-hooks, 50 cents – total, $4.40 to charge to beneficial objects.

Respectfully,

N. C. MEEKER,

Indian Agent

HON. E.A. HAYT,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 

Washington, D.C.

White River Agency, Colorado.

June 16, 1879

Sir: As we are to move our saw-mill and have a grist-mill, it is of…